"Washington envisioned a great world power and he wanted it to look like a world power, and these (stones) are the tools of one aspect of his attempt to realize that," Seale said.
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That is the real world power of the drop kick.
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But the country is a world power in natural gas.
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Yes, it was the world power, France, who won over Croatia.
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"This is an infiltration into art world power and dynamics," she said.
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Now we are the responsible world power — and we are undermining it.
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The United States is actually better at cyberwar than any other world power.
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Their path to some kind of real-world power is clearer than ever.
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Deng Xiaoping put China on a path to become a dominant world power.
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Russia has demonstrated that it has the ability to be a world power.
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Warships from just about every world power have been deployed to the region.
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And Belgium, who is seeing their youth fully develop into a fearful world power.
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They are central to the North Korean identity as a pretentious major world power.
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Here's a permanent Vietnam, another war essential to America's existence as a world power.
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What they had at stake was showing Russia as a world power in sports.
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It's a platform favored by real-world power brokers in politics, entertainment, and media.
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We all know that China wants to advance its mission to be a world power.
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Old world power still holds sway over the newest Americans: Mexicans, Vietnamese, Indians, Hmong, Yemenis.
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It's set in the same world as BioWare's upcoming open-world power armor shooter Anthem.
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In many countries, though, the world power seen as most threatening is the United States.
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With Europe shattered, the United States was suddenly in the ascendant, a genuine world power.
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But Google may well be biased against minorities and others who lack real-world power.
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Her convictions, ethics and determination were driving forces behind Britain's becoming a leading world power.
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To achieve its goals of national rejuvenation, China needs to become a true world power.
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The real world power of fiction remains, decades later, our most inexhaustible form of magic.
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China is now a major world power, and its economy is tightly interwoven with America's.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We&aposre one step closer to being a third world power as of today.
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It's not the sort of math that tallies up to the world power that was promised.
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"In other parts of the world, power could go out multiple times a day," she says.
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It might have lost its place as a world power, but it still had its honour.
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And what country is going to let another world power put such a laser in space?
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Many incarcerated people I have met are very sure that Freemasons are the real world power.
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"Meanwhile, he said, "it makes Russia look like a major world power on the world stage.
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Tensions with Europe China isn't the only world power tangling with the United States over trade.
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As China grows as a world power, its aid programs in general are expanding globally, too.
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Sanctions encourage Sino-Russian cooperation Return of nuclear doomsday MORE to attend the world power summit.
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The price of being a world power is that "the swamp" extends beyond our own borders.
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It has taken art-world power brokers almost fifty years to catch up to Jonas's mythopoetic vision.
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Every four years, the browsers represent their territories in a competition that determines the dominating world power.
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Mr. Xi's nationalist message of China as a strong, highly respected world power resonates with many Chinese.
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We became the dominant world power because we have long accepted and integrated those from all places.
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Belleau Wood "definitely was a critical point in the road for America becoming a world power," Jones said.
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Four years after Athens, Beijing aimed to use the games to showcase itself as a progressive world power.
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Change in Saudi Arabia, an oil-rich world power, would mean change in the rest of the region.
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This test is about loyalty versus integrity and the credibility of the United States as a world power.
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A nation that under-educates its children in the 903st century cannot long survive as a world power.
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Today, China is a world power with ambitions to call more of the shots in world economic affairs.
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But another important reason, experts say, is that China wants to be perceived as a stable world power.
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Clinton sees a leading world power that should continue on the positive trajectory created under the Obama administration.
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His term opened with a design to improve France's image and enhance its role as a world power.
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As I mentioned, the one thing that makes America stand above any other world power is its diversity.
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But Egypt is not a major world power, and it's not a geopolitical antagonist of the United States.
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"You may talk about India being a world power, a global power, sending satellites into space," he said.
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Trump may have ISIS to defeat, but the terrorist group is not a world power with a nuclear arsenal.
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Instead, it was arranged to forge an alliance between Spain, an incredibly wealthy world power, and England, comparably weaker.
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"We are doing things that in 5, 10, 15 years will turn us into a world power," said Gutiérrez.
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That's little time to grow into a world power, especially considering the history of the world's other major leagues.
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That would bolster his narrative of Russia regaining its mantle as a world power and serious Middle East player.
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The only official statement to emerge from any major world power thus far has come from the United Nations.
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Professionalism and proper seamanship and navigation are the table stakes of being a world power and a trading power.
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"But reducing their dependence could be an option for getting ahead in the technological competition and world-power reorganization."
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We had a good run and can rightfully be proud of our rise from colonial backwater to world power.
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The shift gave China tens of millions of manufacturing jobs, stoked its economy and helped create a world power.
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This ignores the many ways in which the US has been an exceptional world power, with all our imperfections.
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The move also leaves the US as the only major world power without a diplomatic mission to the Palestinians.
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Whether czarist or soviet, Russians long for the times in their history when their country truly was a world power.
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I certainly didn't expect the hierarchical structure that was already in place, crystallized along established vectors of art world power.
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" He added that "disorders in the world are worrying people everywhere, including the people of America, the first world power.
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The Russian goal is to polarize public opinion, undermine trust in elections and weaken the U.S. as a world power.
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Russia was the only major world power that did not oppose the referendum, saying it understood Kurdish aspirations for independence.
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China has sought to elevate the role of its currency, the renminbi, to reflect its stature as a world power.
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Food was scarce, industry was failing, and yet everyone was expected to maintain the USSR's façade as a formidable world power.
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It makes us a prudent and responsible world power that stands up for our own security and the freedom of others.
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But people inside the company also recognize their role in elevating a dangerous man to a position of real-world power.
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Vladimir Putin is on a mission to restore Russia as a great world power, as demonstrated by Russia's recent military steps.
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But if Mr. Trump's Libya policy seemed unintelligible to some, the president of another world power had a far clearer vision.
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America's stature in the world of nations has sunk into the pits, and our credibility as a world power has been destroyed.
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Additionally, world power consumption is on the rise, with energy demand being projected to increase by more than 25 percent by 2040.
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As violence continues to swell in Israel and elsewhere over the issue, one world power kept notably calm on the issue: China.
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The third, former U.S. President Barack Obama, as befitted a former leader of the still-hegemonic world power, addressed more global issues.
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Russia is a world power again, able, just last week, to flout the combined diplomatic assault of a raft of Western nations.
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He can write sex that's not based on the kind of real-world power games that often end up being written into erotica.
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The New York Times reports that it was the first such deal Tehran inked with a world power since the sanctions were lifted.
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Their neo-neoclassicism gets to pretend to recall the glory of Greece and Rome in the service of symbolizing a hegemonic world power.
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Last autumn government employees across the country were ordered to watch a six-part television series about China's emergence as a world power.
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President Donald Trump wants the US to have better relations with Russia, in part because he would rather not antagonize another world power.
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A document listing all the contributions to Donald Trump's $2746.13 million inauguration includes the names of quite a few art world power players.
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There is also his demonstrated desire to take his place on the global stage as the decisive leader of a true world power.
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This dense volume is a difficult but rewarding read, capturing its subject's unswerving determination to transform his country into a Communist world power.
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The United States feels what it is like to be the only real world power and they do not want share this power.
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At the same time, experts believe that China will strengthen its influence as a world power as the U.S. takes a more protectionist view.
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The IOC, of course, has been criticized as an overwhelmingly male, elite world power for some time, an image that is hard to change.
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The old flag's benevolence stance wouldn't do in to the stifling heart of the regime, where Gilead is positioning itself as a world power.
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Across the world, power generation and metals companies are traded at about eight to twelve times their earnings before taxes, interest and depreciation (EBITDA).
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To bolster its image as a rising world power, Brazil embarked on a spending spree, which included purchases of submarines and advanced jet fighters.
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We still assume the burdens that arose out of our role as the only world power dedicated to promoting peace, democracy and freedom, however.
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Perhaps their self-imposed exile to France explains their marginalization in discussions of art-world power couples, but their work hardly suffers by comparison.
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The President slammed the world power during the campaign but leaned heavily on China and Xi to tighten the world's grip on North Korea.
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Sarah Wagner questions the romanticized or elided stories that Americans tell themselves about the forces that built the United States into a world power.
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They also face intense social pressure from teachers, peers, and art world power brokers not to "rock the boat" with political discussions about race.
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"How could one imagine that a disorganized group like the Taliban would fight with all the world power and gain so much ground?" he asked.
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I happen to think it&aposs a great idea to engage with a major world power regardless of our adversarial relationship with them at times.
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"They're talking about Britain reasserting itself, Britain being a world power again, Britain not needing anyone else," Oxford historian Margaret MacMillan recently told Christiane Amanpour.
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MIT announced today that it's developed a speech recognition chip capable of real world power savings of between 90 and 99 percent over existing technologies.
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" She also asserted that Russia is trying to reassert itself as a world power by "provoking the international community with opportunistic harassment and covert attack.
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But an expansion in ferry service is not as grand as a bridge, and doesn't send a message about Russia's status as a world power.
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Lawrence's book The Case for Relaunching the Mercantile Economy in Developing Nations offers a clue for how Gilead will become a world power through trade.
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There are those who would go further, saying that now is the time to confront China and halt its emergence as the dominant world power.
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Does Mr. Putin believe that with President Trump's help Russia will emerge as a rejuvenated world power, with the United States in a diminished capacity?
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This is a luxury we cannot afford, it is said, as whichever world power achieves superhuman intelligence via AI first is likely to become dominant.
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But during the 1930s and 1940s, the United States ascended as a world power, fighting Nazis in Germany, the Fascists in Italy, and Imperial Japan.
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Russia had tasted what it was like to be a world power and they did not like being the little brother to the United States.
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Romney was perpetrating the fraud that the only way for the United States to be safe is for it to remain the only world power.
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Excluding large hydro projects for their questionable environmental role, it rose to just 11.3 percent of world power generation, up from 10.3 percent a year earlier.
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We have an obligation as a world power to get healthy as soon as possible for our own well-being and the well-being of others.
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Carter said on Thursday the U.S. strategy was aimed at maintaining peace and lawful settlement of disputes, not provoking a conflict with a major world power.
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It is building a massive military, including space forces, with the goal of challenging the United States and eventually supplanting it as the dominant world power.
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Putin may have a reputation for slyness, but his vision of a dictatorial Russia as the dominant world power is writ large over the entire planet.
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Casual racism is common in China, a diverse country of more than one billion people that after decades of relative isolation is now a world power.
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If you're serious about making an impact in the world, power down your smartphone, close your browser tabs, roll up your sleeves and get to work.
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Just last year, Republicans (42%) and Democrats (40%) were about equally likely to see "the development of China as a world power" as a critical threat.
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"I think America's the leading world power and that was not a speech that was uplifting or committed America to continued leadership in the world," said Sen.
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Like me, these out-of-towners found themselves drawn to the gaudy, sky-scraping phallus that became a somewhat unlikely locus of world power on November 9.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Renewable energy will grow more quickly than forecast and provide around 15 percent of world power generation by 2035, oil company BP said on Wednesday.
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On average, roughly a third of respondents across all 10 countries described tensions with Russia as well as China's emergence as a world power as major threats.
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Winston Churchill argues that it was his ancestor who made Queen Anne great and it was his military victories that firmly established Britain as a world power.
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In a reversal of the joke that if men gave birth, abortion would be a sacrament, the Big Brother-ish World Power Authority still outlaws pregnancy termination.
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That has fueled the sentiment in Beijing that the deterioration of relations was not about trade policy as much as blunting China's emergence as a world power.
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European support for Ukraine matters as a symbol to the world that liberal democracies will always find allies in the EU. The EU is a world power.
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"Watching a world power taking revenge for civilians against the Syrian regime gave me a surge of hope and made me a bit optimistic," Mr. Abbas said.
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There's no inherent conflict in a rising world power like China assuming leadership alongside an established power like the United States, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.
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Their sacrifice in the Normandy landings helped purchase 75 years of European freedom and prosperity, and enshrined America as the leading world power and guarantor of Western democracy.
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None of these subtleties are likely to deter the British government from maintaining a formal alliance with the United States as long as it remains a world power.
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TPP was picked up by Canada and Japan, re-labeled TPP-11 (or TPP-minus-the-United States), and signed in December, but lacks a major world power.
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"China is a great world power and has expanded its presence in many countries, especially in Africa, in recent years," he said alongside Djibouti President Ismail mar Guelleh.
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Ten years ago many Indians believed in China's pronouncement that it would be a different kind of world power, one whose power rests on economic development, said Xavier.
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While campaigning for president, Donald Trump took plenty of pleasure in taking potshots at world power China (even as he's walked back some of those statements a little).
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Even the daring yet ill-fated Operation Eagle Claw rescue attempt in April 1980 only served to cement the image of America as a diminished, ineffectual world power.
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Trump's Syria withdrawal, in particular, made "Russia look like a major world power on the world stage," said James Nixey, head of Chatham House's Russia and Eurasia program.
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Everything is at stake for him: his political leadership at home, China's economy, its position as a world power and ultimately Xi's own strut on the world stage.
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Because what you're having is the emerging power, in many ways, going global and challenging and existing world power and there's going to be lots to argue about.
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He took full advantage of his bully pulpit, speaking out about the danger of monopolies, the nation's growing role as a world power, and other issues important to him.
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It's an idea that could fundamentally reshape the idea of the utility business — and give control over it, on a global scale, to whichever world power gets there first.
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China is seeking to position itself as a world power in artificial intelligence, 5G networks, robotics and quantum computing, with the government pouring vast resources into research and development.
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It has stuck to its diplomatic philosophy of not meddling in the internal affairs of other countries - a position that is increasingly inflexible for a would-be world power.
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The US — the only world power strong enough to take on China — will have to step up if it wants to be taken as a serious alternative in Asia.
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Quiet, awkward, and a poor student, Hoover somehow managed, by his young adulthood, to have made himself into an exemplar of his generation's America, a technologically advanced world power.
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As a world power, of course they would have a vested interest and wishful thinking for who is president of the United States, just like every other country does.
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This approach is seen as crucial in having enabled China to lift hundreds of millions of citizens out of poverty and turn itself from global backwater into world power.
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And while in a normal administration, being removed from a formal post would signal a loss of favor and influence, in Mr. Trump's world, power and position are uncoupled.
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Americans might regard the United Nations as an illegitimate constraint on your world power, but it makes little sense to take the same attitude to the International Olympic Committee.
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What is this new world in which we have a major world power that seems to be directing a lot of energy, attention to influencing events within the United States?
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Israel celebrated its 70th anniversary, according to the Hebrew calendar, with an elaborate ceremony in Jerusalem, during which Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, called the country a "rising world power".
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Notably absent from Mr. Assange's analysis, however, was criticism of another world power, Russia, or its president, Vladimir V. Putin, who has hardly lived up to WikiLeaks' ideal of transparency.
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The move also further tarnishes the legacy of the Sochi Olympics, an event held up by President Vladimir Putin to promote his image of Russia as a resurgent world power.
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If sanctions against a world power and its entities are a big deal, so, too, are top advisers to the President-elect taking secret meetings with representatives of those entities.
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"With the challenges linked to the increasing share and role of nuclear energy in world power generation, there could be not enough competition as of today," Likhachyov told the forum.
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Three times in the last century America found itself on the brink of disaster because it sat on the sidelines and delayed utilizing new inventions that ultimately changed world power.
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Friendships matter in geopolitics, and while the UK can certainly become a legitimate world power in its own right, it hasn't had to chart its own foreign policy in decades.
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A survey conducted last month by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs found that only 38 percent of Americans believe that China's development as a world power poses a critical threat.
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Brexit is rooted in imperial nostalgia and myths of British exceptionalism, coming up as they have — especially since 2008 — against the reality that Britain is no longer a major world power.
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But they have since been co-opted by the government, with the Kremlin recasting the military victory as a cornerstone of its argument that Russia deserves to be a world power.
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What distinguishes the Trump administration from its predecessors is the recognition that decades of U.S. engagement with China, in the hope it would become a responsible world power, have utterly failed.
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The successor of the Ottoman Empire, which played the game of great power politics until its defeat during World War I, Turkish officials consider a resurgent Turkey an important world power.
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It would be easy to see The Crown as a show about Elizabeth II, the monarch whose nearly 70-year reign has seen the decline of Britain as a world power.
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Without a world-power-class military or economy at his disposal, he is instead wielding confusion and uncertainty — which Soviet leaders rightly avoided as existential dangers — as weapons against the West.
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As the U.S. and North Korea escalated their exchanges, major stock indices in every world power that a military or nuclear conflict would affect, as well as other key market gauges, suffered.
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"This was is just one world power trying to dictate things after another," said Ahmed, a father of three in Aleppo province who asked to be only identified by his first name.
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We know that Cordelia (Sarah Paulson) becomes the Supreme at the end of the season, but who's to say that there isn't a little bit of Old World power in Zoe, too?
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"If you're serious about making an impact in the world, power down your smartphone," wrote Cal Newport, a Georgetown University computer science professor, in a New York Times op-ed in November.
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The Greek premier was not alone in wondering how Britain had so quickly descended from a self-confident, economically successful world power into a country more closely resembling Ruritania — or perhaps Greece.
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That way they can start to repair some damage and convince the American public and key leaders around the globe that the United States is a credible, reliable and thoughtful world power.
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If the United States is to remain a leading world power into the future, it must continue to be economically productive and competitive on the world stage in ways beyond military firepower.
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" Setting himself up as a defender of European unity — Ms. Le Pen is fiercely opposed to the European Union — Mr. Juppé said: "France can be a world power, in thrall to nobody.
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Roads were empty as I drove to the office, and I remember thinking -- people are barely waking up, and they don't realize that we're about to levy sanctions against a world power.
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But another significant — and overlooked — factor, according to people closely involved in the region's politics and business, was the economic lifeline extended by another world power who'd otherwise remained notably neutral: Russia.
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Juanpi's was a world-class goal, but it's a young team's larger result—a 2-2 tie against world power Argentina that could well have been a win—that should raise eyebrows.
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The Kremlin has recast the World War II victory as a cornerstone of its argument that Russia deserves to be a world power, which today means standing up to the United States.
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Whatever Moscow was doing to try to disrupt the American election was, in Moscow's view, a tit-for-tat — the usual thing a self-respecting world power would do to foreign conspirators.
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The volumes "The Ruling Elite: The Zionist Seizure of World Power" and "A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind" have also been banned from Amazon's website, according to the Times.
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The volumes, "The Ruling Elite: The Zionist Seizure of World Power" and "A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind," have also been banned from Amazon's website, according to the Times.
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In a globalised world, power is necessarily pooled and traded: Britain gives up sovereignty in exchange for clout through its memberships of NATO, the IMF and countless other power-sharing, rule-setting institutions.
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BOAO, China — China is poised to be a key stabilizer in the world economy as its rise and ambitions underscores a transition in world power relations, said an international affairs expert on Thursday.
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"Eliminating perceived threats to the Kim family regime and a belief that North Korea it entitled to respect as a world power are the primary drivers of North Korea's security strategy," it says.
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It's a strategic plan designed to acquire advanced research and technologies that will allow China not just to challenge the U.S. but to supplant the United States as the single dominant world power.
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The military exercise, planned for many months, was part of a larger effort by President Vladimir V. Putin to showcase Russia's military prowess as it tries to reassert itself as a world power.
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These silences are deafening, because the type of world Power wants to build will never be realized if only certain countries—namely, those that stand outside America's imperial sphere—are held to account.
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The Soviet Union long supported Cuba's economy, but as the world power spun toward dissolution at the end of the 1980s, that support dried up, and Cuba was left to fend for itself.
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This is larger than Trump and Xi. China's admission to the World Trade Organization in 2001 was meant to integrate the country into the global trading system as an increasingly responsible world power.
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Plot: In 12th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.
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Mr. Xi, who has sought to expand China's global influence, seems eager to shake the shadow of SARS and show that Beijing can handle a public health crisis like a responsible world power.
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Mr. Xi, who has sought to expand China's global influence, seems eager to shake the shadow of SARS and show that Beijing can handle a public health crisis like a responsible world power.
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Hammer will be part of the ensemble cast in a new play by Tracy Letts exploring "small-town politics and real-world power" in a comedy taking place at a city council meeting.
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Now 116 years later, another railway line has been built almost parallel to those same tracks in a bid to transform this part of Africa, but this time by a different world power: China.
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But even during the inauguration, the art world's anti-Trump alignment wasn't as unified a block as it appeared — a fact made clear by revelations that art world power brokers had funded Trump's Inauguration.
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Just as the Soviet Union trumpeted Olympic victories as proof of communism's superiority, Mr Putin has held up Russian champions as a sign of the country reclaiming its rightful place as a world power.
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Under this new formulation, the party is presented less as a vanguard of proletarian revolution and more as a force for reviving China and restoring it to its rightful place as a world power.
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The movement has since been largely co-opted by the government, with the Kremlin recasting the World War II victory as a cornerstone of its argument that Russia deserves to be a world power.
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Meanwhile, the nation's rise from poverty to a world power in the last few decades can provide valuable lessons for other developing countries, especially as the Trump administration continues to pursue anti-globalization policies.
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That war, devastating as it was, seemed to teach a series of lessons on how to avoid more war, grow economies and remain a centre – even, the centre – of world power Were the lessons wrong?
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"China seeks to become a major world power, and one of the hallmarks of such a status is blue-water capability and the ability to project military might globally," Chiu wrote for CNN in March.
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The invitation also hints at Macron's strategy of reinvigorating France as a major world power, and a determination to ensure that despite antipathy in Europe towards Trump's approach, the US remains engaged in the West.
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Political divisions about whether to replace the Trident submarines, backed in principle by parliament in 2007, have raised questions about Britain's standing as a world power, amplified by Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
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"We must not allow Austria to become a stooge for the political world power the USA," Boehmdorfer told the court, depicting Firtash as the victim of a U.S. strategy to minimize Russian influence in Ukraine.
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Immigrant fathers in particular, she shows, often battled mightily, and even violently, to retain some semblance of Old World power and hierarchy in homes where rapidly Americanizing children wanted nothing more than to break free.
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He died on Friday at age 90, a decade after stepping down as president but defiant to the end toward the United States, the world power he tormented from just 90 miles (145 km) away.
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STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union must flex its muscles as a world power, EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday, as he spoke critically of U.S. President Donald Trump's retreat from international engagement.
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In morning lessons and evening chats while Tony sat at his feet, he often emphasized the importance of the United States as the dominant world power so it could check aggression from dictators like Mr. Castro.
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Lawmakers backed renewing Britain's ageing nuclear weapons system earlier this year, a step many regard as key to maintaining the country's status as a world power following its vote in June to leave the European Union.
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Russia is no doubt a world power, but it needs to correct and compensate for its actions abroad in recent years before it should be readmitted, write Luke Coffey and Alexis Mrachek of the Heritage Foundation.
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Income inequality and political extremes are present and growing, the Federal Reserve is running out of tools to stimulate the economy, and China is starting to challenge the US's status as the de facto world power.
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Lawmakers backed renewing Britain's ageing nuclear weapons system earlier this year, a multi-billion pound project regarded as key to maintaining the country's status as a world power following its vote to leave the European Union.
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The United States didn't enter WWI — the "war to end all war" — until conflict had been raging for years, but it wrenched America out of its traditional isolationism and marked its ascendance as a world power.
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But the best chance the White House has at acting effectively without firing shots is with the assistance of China, North Korea's economic lifeline and the only major world power the country has remotely friendly relations with.
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He was 6-years-old when President Richard Nixon met Chairman Mao Zedong in 1972, a "geopolitical earthquake" event which opened up China to the U.S. and led to it becoming the world power it is today.
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The leave argument rested heavily on the notion that, once freed from an oppressive thicket of EU regulations spewed by Brussels bureaucrats, Britain's feeble economy would once again regain its glory as a fully independent world power.
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The leave argument rests heavily on the notion that, once freed from an oppressive thicket of EU regulations spewed by Brussels bureaucrats, Britain's feeble economy will once again regain its glory as a fully independent world power.
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North Korea is estimated to have one of the world's largest submarine fleets with dozens in operation, though it is believed most of them are ageing diesel submarines that would be considered obsolete by world-power standards.
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"I am more than honored to be a part of this project and to be able to help Chinese football become a new world power," Mendes said in a news release at the time of the deal.
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Acheson, who was President Truman's secretary of state, went on to say that Britain's attempt to play the part of a world power aloof from Europe by leveraging its "special relationship" with America was almost "played out".
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A glimmer of existence so brief it risks the ignominy of being Europe's shortest lived country, and never had a hope of being officially recognized in the global constellation of nations, never mind aspiring to world power.
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American Jewish practice and identity have developed in response to being a minority group without a homegrown political nationalist movement, living in a world power at peace with its immediate neighbors and with no established state religion.
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Lavrov, 69, has been the face of Moscow's muscular foreign policy for more than a decade and a half as the Kremlin has reasserted what President Vladimir Putin said was Russia's rightful standing as a world power.
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" Mr. Todorov said that French intellectuals' longstanding fear of national decline resulted from "the fact that in the 20th century, France moved from the status of a world power to the status of a second-rank power.
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The global public has unfavorable opinions of Russia and President Vladimir Putin, but the country is still rising and becoming a world power, reports Clark Letterman of Pew Research Center citing data from a poll of 25 countries.
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While China grew into a world power under his leadership, he established a brutal cult of personality that led to mass imprisonment and executions and his Great Leap Forward led to famine that caused the deaths of millions.
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Responding to that, Studebaker acknowledged China has been lacking in certain tech sectors and has bought a lot of technologies from elsewhere, but he said it was "clearly kind of a world power" in the artificial intelligence space.
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Now the artist — half of an art world power couple with the painter John Currin — is getting her first American museum retrospective, to feature her work across media, including a wall-relief that was commissioned for the show.
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"The fact that Iran has the power to give such a slap to a world power shows the hand of God," Khamenei said, after referring to the launch of missiles against U.S. targets as a "day of God".
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Wagner has adopted the notion of the sheep tree as a sort of mascot for pervasive falsehood — specifically romanticized or elided stories that Americans tell themselves about the forces that built the United States into a world power.
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STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The European Union should flex its potential strength as a world power as the United States under President Donald Trump pulls back from international engagement, EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker is expected to say on Wednesday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Lawmakers voted strongly on Monday to renew Britain's ageing nuclear weapons system, a multi billion-pound project regarded as key to maintaining the country's status as a world power following its vote to leave the European Union.
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They'll be watching not just for signs of continuing interference from Russia, as intelligence officials believe happened in the 2016 presidential election, but for a host of potential pitfalls -- from rogue social media posts to real-world power outages.
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But it has only escalated the larger dispute, which involves several Asian nations as well as the United States, and which is as much about China's rise into a major world power as it is about this one sea.
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Savile Row looms large as an influence for nearly all designers, but perhaps the traditional suit — top-heavy and imbued with a sense of old-world power — need not be the only way to show off a man's physique.
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In my recent discussions with Russian foreign policy experts, they have made clear that if Moscow wants to be a world power, on an equal footing with Washington, it should be able and willing to match the United States.
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STRASBOURG, Sept 12 (Reuters) - The European Union should flex its potential strength as a world power as the United States under President Donald Trump pulls back from international engagement, EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker is expected to say on Wednesday.
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"Pearl Harbor started the process by which America got engaged in World War II, became a world power, and became the country we live in today," says Rob Citino, senior historian at the Natonal World War II Museum in New Orleans.
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But everyone knows that Trump's actual response to Russia's intervention on his behalf has been gratitude and solicitousness — what other response is there to a world power doing exactly what you asked of them in a time of political need?
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Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump is turning to a reliable stable of Republican and business world power brokers to fill out his administration, signaling he's looking to push his agenda using the political apparatus he famously pledged to dismantle.
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Ashok Anjara, a 43-year-old mining financier who splits time between Mumbai, London and New York, explained to me how these inner-city courts are a metaphor for an India that's transitioning from third-world country to world power.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran is willing to give reassurances on not seeking nuclear arms and accept changes to its 2015 nuclear accord with world power if the United States returns to the deal and lifts sanctions, a government spokesman said on Wednesday.
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Supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the exhibition, "Age of Empires," will teach our visitors about the origins of China, the superpower that is now playing a major role in the balance of world power and trade.
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This next chapter is as heinously complex as you might expect in the third act of an internecine seven-year war, which no world power really wants to own, but whose final settlement none want to be left out of.
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The big picture: Macron argues that the consensus behind the trans-Atlantic alliance is obsolete, and that Europe will "disappear geopolitically" if it fails to become a unified, effective and far more assertive world power in its own right. 1.
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In other words, when Trump's audience finishes his sentences for him, the blanks are filled with sentiments that resonate: fears of joblessness, worries about the United States losing its status as a major world power, concerns about foreign terrorist organizations.
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JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: President Trump seemingly passing out pardons to heroes of the far right, almost as eagerly as Oprah once gifted Pontiacs to suburban moms CLINT WATTS, FORMER SPECIAL AGENT: We are one step closer to being a third world power.
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A pop-up exhibition recently opened in Midtown Manhattan that adds opulence to the formula, and in doing so demonstrates once again that there is nothing a struggling artist can create that cannot be quickly snapped up by art world power players.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Britain's United Nations ambassador asserted on Friday that the country's strength as a world power would not be weakened by its exit from the European Union and vowed that London would never give up its U.N. Security Council veto.
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That was speculative fiction, but cybersecurity experts have warned for years that America's overreliance on Chinese manufacturing is a major security vulnerability that could fundamentally shift the balance of world power if China were to compromise the integrity of the supply chain.
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Dean Acheson's famous remark, in 1962, that "Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role" suggests that striving to become a social democracy within Europe would somehow have been an insufficiently glorious ambition for an erstwhile world power.
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" This expanded from demonstrating democracy to actively promoting it abroad when the United States emerged as a world power in the early 20th century, as expressed in President Woodrow Wilson's case for entering World War I: to make the world "safe for democracy.
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His answer — to make Laos into a regional power hub, exporting electricity to the rest of south-east Asia — depends on a technology that is being pushed hard by a powerful former state electricity boss with a vision for connecting world power markets.
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In this scenario, North Korea makes an EMP attack on Japan and South Korea to achieve its three most important foreign policy goals: reunification with South Korea, revenge upon Japan for World War II, and recognition of North Korea as a world power.
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Their implicit idea is to remind America's future best and brightest how the mostly successful grand strategy of the past saw America become the pre-eminent world power of the 20th century by winning two world conflicts along with the Cold War.
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One might wish that the solemn responsibility of leading a nuclear-armed world power would steer a successful seventy-year-old man away from routinely telling whoppers, yet it is hardly surprising that Trump has not changed since taking the oath of office.
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Putin's Russia has to come up with ways to make up for its economic and geopolitical weakness; its traditional levers of influence are limited, and, were it not for a formidable nuclear arsenal, it's unclear how important a world power it would be.
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Vindman explained that he considered the request to implicitly be a demand, because it was the president of the most powerful country in the world asking for "a favor" from a much lesser world power, according to the people familiar with his testimony.
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China seeks to become a major world power, and one of the hallmarks of such a status is blue-water capability and the ability to project military might globally; so to that end, it believes it must continue developing its military along all dimensions.
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He has spent years using brute force to reestablish Russia's prominence as a world power, and his aggressive approach included invading and annexing part of eastern Ukraine, and helping Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad retain his hold on power despite years of brutal fighting.
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Hu Jintao, Former President of China Under Hu, China grew as a top economic world power but the country still held to its Communist structure, limiting outside influence and access, and engaging in human rights violations, according to the West and international advocacy groups.
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It was due to the fact that, since World War II, the leading world power is a democracy possessing the largest free market-economy on the planet, a commitment to human rights and freedom, and military might far surpassing any conceivable combination of aggressive regimes.
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"Catherine the Greatest: Self-Polished Diamond of the Hermitage," at the Hermitage Amsterdam, is a rich and fascinating look at the very human woman behind the tale of a tsarina who built Russia into a world power, amassing lovers and artworks along the way.
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Putin's goal is to make Russia the kind of world power it was during the Soviet era; he's been willing to aggressively deploy the Russian military (in Ukraine and Syria) and intelligence services (in Western Europe and the United States) in service of this aim.
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We are now in an increasingly adversarial relationship with a huge world power, with a country that has thousands of nuclear weapons, that has a veto in the UN Security Council, that spans 11 time zones, that borders on the Middle East, East Asia and Europe.
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Read more: A member of Google's disastrous AI council says the company needs to be treated like a "world power""Just after Google announced that it would disband its AI ethics council, I was informed my role would be changed dramatically," Whittaker wrote at the time.
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Indeed if Russia hawks had their way, contacts with Russian officials would be minimized, the U.S. would double down instead of deescalate, and Putin would be reminded daily that the U.S. is the much stronger world power that can get by even without the Kremlin's help.
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"If the OSM really cared about economic development, it would stop pushing job killing regulations like the stream protection rule and let these hardworking Americans get back to doing what they are good at: providing the nation with the energy that made it a world power," Rep.
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Against that backdrop, Dalio fears that the US's current situation starkly resembles one of the past: a 10-year period which saw an end of a debt cycle (both long and short term), growing wealth inequality, political conflict, and eventually the rise of a new world power.
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He maintained that position even as Japan faded from the scene as a major world power and as Saudi Arabia emerged as one of America's most critical allies in a region of the world where Mr. Trump sees little reason for the United States to remain.
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Context: As President Vladimir Putin of Russia enters his third decade in power, he is pushing to re-establish his country as a world power through an asymmetric shadow war that includes not only hacking and election interference, but also mercenary operations in Syria, Libya and Ukraine.
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"The United States is not a normal country: Its geographic bounty gave it the possibility of becoming a world power, and with that power it has developed longstanding obligations, which, on account of its continued economic and social dynamism relative to other powers, it keeps," Kaplan writes.
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Now I think this is going to back fire on Russia because in the long term because the United States is the leading world power and to get the status and the recognition that they need, they need to be able to cut deals with the United States.
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LONDON, July 18 (Reuters) - British lawmakers voted by 472 to 117 on Monday to back the renewal of the country's ageing nuclear weapons system, a multi-billion pound project regarded as key to maintaining its status as a world power following its vote to leave the European Union.
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In it, Kennedy argues that every world power since 1500 has been defined by economic hegemony that fell when that nation-state became overstretched by its military presence and spending, which was accompanied by a lack of investment in other aspects of society, contributing to an overall decline.
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BEIJING — One year ago, when he began a multibillion-dollar trade war with China that shook the global economy, President Trump demanded that Beijing end lavish government spending aimed at making the country a world power in computer chips, robotics, commercial aircraft and other industries of the future.
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While it should go without saying that the head of state of a supreme world power would hold this posture, we are now threatened by a troubling tendency, as we experienced under the Obama presidency, to bow to a world order rather than pursue our own global potential.
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Time and time again on the campaign trail, Trump painted the US under Obama as a faltering world power -- too afraid of the Politically Correct police to do what needed to be done abroad and too dumb to understand the economic policies needed to put Americans back to work stateside.
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The book, which was published while Mr. Pillsbury was advising the Obama administration as a Pentagon consultant, presents an apocalyptic view of China as a clever enemy with a stealthy plan to overtake the United States as the dominant world power by 2049 — a century after the People's Republic was founded.
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Dalio suggested that tension between the two was reminiscent of periods throughout history in which a world power at the head of a global order is challenged by a rising power, and likened China's current trajectory to the rise of the Dutch, British and more recently American, periods of global economic dominance.
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Then they said the steel industry is going to be strategic, we need it to be a world power, so they made it strategic and 95 percent of it's state-owned, and they built 900 million tons of capacity when they had only about 100 to 150 million tons before they started that.
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"At a time of great turmoil in our region, we have managed not only to maintain the state's security and stability, we have even managed to turn Israel into a rising world power," Netanyahu said at the nomination ceremony after President Reuven Rivlin gave him the mandate to form a new government.
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To guess what's on the other side of the impenetrable wall of the present — always risky — we might venture that global affairs in the year 2100 will look more like it did in 1700 than 1900 and that the center of world power will be in the East rather than the West.
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"I am hopeful that China, as a great country, a world power, will decide on their own, will take it upon themselves to use that very powerful tool of oil supply to persuade North Korea to reconsider its current path towards weapons development, reconsider its approach to dialogue and negotiations in the future," he said.
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"The consumer is more selfish right now in feeling that China has a rich history and culture and is now a world power — that we know we are your most important customer base and you need to respect them," said Ben Cavender, a senior analyst at China Market Research, a consultancy based in Shanghai.
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That the dynamic between the two leaders has become so decisive in determining the fate of Idlib, and Syria as a whole, is a measure of how far the United States under President Trump has pulled back not only from messy foreign entanglements but also from its former role as a pre-eminent world power.
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" On the "trap" the U.S. has fallen into since the end of the Cold War: "I believe that if you think you are the only world power, trying to impose on the whole nation the idea of their exclusiveness, this creates an imperialistic mentality in society, which in turn requires an adequate foreign policy expected by society.
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Plans for the world power-brokered cessation of hostilities in Syria next week appear to be on shaky ground, amid little indication that rebel groups plan to adhere to it, low confidence from the international community, Saudi Arabia preparing to put boots on the ground, and no suggestion that Syrian president Bashar al Assad is willing to step down.
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CreditCreditHeather Sten for The New York Times Over the weekend before the Fourth of July last year, David and Libbie Mugrabi, an art-world power couple known for their enormous collection of Warhols, hosted a dinner party for about 15 business associates, some of whom were also staying over at their lavish nine-bedroom estate in the Hamptons.
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The recent surge may not augur some great career turn—his previous career high in homers was 28, and the list of middle infielders who found all-world power just before their 30th birthdays is a short one—but this is someone living the last-place life the right way, bringing beer-league softball strategy to the bigs.
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This stems from the inherent tension between two core elements of America's identity as a nation: the idealistic vision of America as a beacon of freedom and democracy on the one hand, and the vision of America as the leading world power whose job and responsibility it is to maintain order and stability — not just politically, but also economically — around the world.
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It is in this inter-war and post-war period as Hopper was doing his most poignant work that the US became a world power with an ideology of prosperity that actually seemed to function for the working class: People working in blue-collar occupations could enjoy ever increasing standards of living fulfilled by way of a Fordist economy and ever-expanding markets.
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Exports are a key piece of President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE's agenda for "energy dominance," which includes the United States becoming a world power in energy markets.
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As part of his campaign to restore Russia's former status as a world power, Putin fostered an obsessive focus on Russia's defeat of the Nazis in World War II. Walker shows how Putin has used this cult of victory to promote a unifying "national idea" of Russia's enduring strength and glory and to make Russians feel proud rather than ashamed, a dramatic turn after the rudderless misery of the Yeltsin years.
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From its possibly transgender and definitely Catholic queen's efforts to create a golden age to the tragic yet utterly predictable failure of Salomon August Andrée to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, Sweden long sought to prove its worth, while Denmark, assured — if only until the late 19th century — of its status as a world power, felt free to engage in the kind of colonialism that got its citizens kidnapped by Algerian pirates.
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